The Karnataka High Court on Monday directed the Central government to ensure that analog channels are not switched off in the state till April 5, 2013. Justice Abdul Nazeer granted time to the Union government to file its objections to a petition seeking extension of the March 31, 2013 deadline for installing Set Top Boxes (STB) filed by Mysore District Cable Operators' Association. ...
12:40 AM, Apr 02, 2013
The Supreme Court has dismissed a petition filed by Kingfisher Airlines challenging the Karnataka High Court order directing it to pay over Rs 350 crores of tax deducted at source (TDS). The company contended in its petition that the amount due is much less than the demand made by the IT Department and the department had not given it a proper opportunity to hear its case. ...
03:02 PM, Mar 08, 2013
Relief for protesting parents against the hike of fee in unaided private school in Bangalore as the Karnataka High Court on Tuesday, while hearing a batch of petitions filed by a Parents Association on the hike of fee, passed an interim order that schools cannot oust the children for not paying the fee. ...
06:27 AM, Feb 13, 2013
The Karnataka High Court will on Monday hear a PIL filed on the exhibition of nude paintings in Chitrakala Parishath art gallery in Bangalore. The petitioner has said that there is no screening committee to screen paintings of artists before they are showcased at art galleries. ...
09:12 AM, Feb 11, 2013
The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday directed the government to constitute a Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by Joint Commissioner Crime Pranab Mohanty to investigate into recent murder of Right to Information Activist (RTI) activist Lingaraju. Hearing the suo motu PIL on the matter, a division bench headed by Chief Justice Vikramajit Sen asked the government to submit its final report on the matter by February 10. ...
07:34 PM, Dec 12, 2012
Bangalore: The Karnataka High Court on Thursday dismissed the bail plea of the PDP leader and accused in the 2008 Bangalore serial bombings case Abdul Nasser Madani. The Karnataka Police had charged him for treason, terrorism and attempt to murder. They had also alleged that Madani was part of the planning of the blast and helped terrorists. The serial blasts before an election meeting to be addressed by senior BJP...
11:18 AM, Nov 22, 2012
Bangalore: The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday pulled up the state government for letting garbage pile up in Bangalore. Karnataka High Court Chief Justice Vikramjit Sen rapped the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) and the Pollution Control Board for failing to tackle the garbage problem. Justice Vikramjit Sen expressed apprehensions that unless some top officials are taken to task, the rot won't be stemmed. Slamming the government officials for failing...
03:07 PM, Nov 20, 2012
Bangalore: French embassy official Pascal Mazurier, who was accused of raping his four-year-old daughter, has been granted bail by the Karnataka High Court. Mazurier, who was the Chief of Joint Chancellerie in the Consulate of France, was arrested and sent to judicial custody after his Indian wife Suja Jones accused him of sexually harassing their daughter in June 2012. Pascal has to surrender his passport and cannot leave without the...
11:17 AM, Oct 17, 2012
Bellary: Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) winner from the Bellary Lok Sabha constituency, J Shantha, was on Saturday officially declared the winner from the seat after a recount of votes. The Karnataka High Court had set aside the election of the MP in June this year after a petition was filed against her in the court saying that she used fake caste certificates and that there were counting irregularities. Shantha is...
05:40 PM, Sep 15, 2012
Bangalore: Following an outrage over certain remarks made by a judge of Karnataka High Court on women in an open court, all family court matters, including child custody and guardianship, have been shifted from him and another judge. The matters have been shifted to the court of justices KL Manjunath and V Suri Appa Rao from the court of Justice Bhakthavatsala and Justice BS Indrakala. There was no other change...
07:42 AM, Sep 08, 2012
Bangalore: The High Court on Thursday directed the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike to demolish illegal toilets constructed on the footpath of 3rd Cross, Sudhamanagar (ward 118) near Lalbagh saying footpaths were meant for pedestrians and not for toilets and transformers. During the hearing of a petition filed by resident Sunita Devi, in front of whose house the toilets have come up, Justice Ram Mohan Reddy said, How many toilets have...
05:03 PM, Aug 31, 2012
Bangalore: The Karnataka High Court on Thursday disposed of a habeas corpus petition filed by the parents of a devotee of Nityananda, after he deposed before the court that he was "not illegally detained" by the self-styled godman. The court disposed of the petition filed by Munnur Krishnamurthy and Jayanthi after their son Santhosh said he had not been illegally detained, joined the ashram on his own will and refused...
09:39 PM, Jul 05, 2012
Ramanagar: Controversial self-styled godman Nithyananda was granted bail by the district executive magistrate today, a day after he was re-arrested on charges of disturbing peace. Ramanagar Deputy Commissioner Sriram Reddy, also the executive magistrate, passed orders granting bail to Nithyananda on furnishing a bond for Rs 1 lakh and two sureties for like sum and directed him not to disturb peace. Public Prosecutor Nagaraj Reddy opposed bail for Nithyananda who...
06:29 PM, Jun 15, 2012
Bangalore: Ramanagaram police on Tuesday began search operations in Swamy Nithyananda Ashram in Bidadi. Sources said that police has been directed to arrest to all those named in the FIR including Nithyananda. SP Ramanagaram, Anupam Agarwal, said "If we find Nithyananda we will arrest him for charges of assault and threat to life, this has nothing to do with the sleaze tapes." Earlier, facing arrest Nithyananda moved the Karnataka High...
05:42 PM, Jun 12, 2012
Bangalore: Lawyers of the the self-styled godman, Nithyananda, have moved the Karnataka High Court to quash the first FIR lodged against him, after his supporters clashed with a TV reporter. The self-styled godman remains missing 24 hours after the Sadananda Gowda government launched a manhunt for him. There has been no clue of his whereabouts despite the state government having ordered a probe into allegations of sexual abuse against him....
03:32 PM, Jun 12, 2012
Bangalore: Jailed in a corruption case, BJP MLA Sampangi on June 4 moved to the Karnataka High Court seeking bail and also to review the Lokayukta court verdict. The matter will come up for hearing on June 5 before Justice Jagannathan. In the first-ever conviction of an elected representative of the people in Karnataka, Lokayukta court Judge NK Sudhindra Rao on June 2 has convicted and sentenced Sampangi to undergo...
02:26 PM, Jun 04, 2012
New Delhi: The Karnataka High Court on Monday dismissed a writ petition by former Director General of Police Shankar Bidari to reconsider his appointment as the DGP. Bidari had filed the petition in the wake of the recent verdict by the Supreme Court directing the Karnataka High Court to review the case. On April 24, the apex court had stayed the Karnataka High Court order quashing Bidari's appointment as the...
05:42 PM, May 28, 2012
On March 30, the Karnataka High Court had ordered for Shankar Bidari's sacking while comparing him to Hitler and Gaddafi in reference to his handling of tribals in the campaign against Veerappan. ...
02:43 PM, Apr 24, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the Karnataka High Court order which had quashed the appointment of Shankar Bidari as director general of state police, dubbing him as "worse than Saddam Hussein or Muammar Gaddafi." A bench of Justice Aftab Alam and Justice C K Prasad asked the state high court to examine afresh the matter and dispose it of before May 31. The apex court while staying...
01:52 PM, Apr 24, 2012
New Delhi: A special leave petition filed against former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa in the mining scam was withdrawn on Monday after the complainant reportedly told the Supreme Court that the matter before the Chief Justice Bench and the Central Empowered Committee (CEC) "should be pursued without any hindrance". However the CEC recommendations for a CBI probe against Yeddyurappa will be heard by the SC. The fate of Yeddyurappa...
01:24 PM, Apr 23, 2012
